“I should like to help the little country schools,” Anna Jeanes said, so she established a foundation that supported Jeanes supervisors in rural schools in the American South. Supervisors visited the schools, often one room in a church or lodge, providing encouragement, support, and instruction for the teachers there. Here in Monroe County Annie Whitehead had the longest tenure as a Jeanes supervisor, working from 1950 to 1973.
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